menmae
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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *menmens, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, remember”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
menmae m (genitive menman, nominative plural menmain)
- the mind
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13a12
- Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.
- If there are any of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13a12
- thinking, understanding
- thought, heed, attention
- spirit, courage, self-confidence
- desire, inclination
Inflection
Masculine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | menmae | menmainL, menmuin | menmain, menmuin, menmana |
Vocative | menmae | menmainL, menmuin | menmanaH |
Accusative | menmainN, menmuin | menmainL, menmuin | menmanaH |
Genitive | menman | menmanL | menmanN |
Dative | menmainL, menmaeL, menmuin | menmanaib | menmanaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
menmae also mmenmae after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
menmae pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- ^ Stüber, Karin (1998) The Historical Morphology of n-Stems in Celtic (Maynooth studies in Celtic linguistics; III), Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, →ISBN, pages 172-173
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 menma”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (think)
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish masculine nouns
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish masculine or feminine n-stem nouns